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Supergirl (soundtrack)
Supergirl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is Claudia Sarne's hybrid orchestral-synth score for DC Studios' 2026 Supergirl film, released June 26, 2026 by WaterTower Music with 19 tracks, 49 minutes.
Supergirl (TV series)
Supergirl (2015-2021) is an American DC Comics-based action-adventure drama starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin. Created by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg; six seasons, 126 episodes; CBS then The CW; Arrowverse crossovers.
Supergood Subramani
Supergood Subramani (சூப்பர் குட் சுப்பிரமணி), also credited as Supergood Subramanian, is an Indian Tamil character actor named after Super Good Films, known for Jai Bhim, Soorarai Pottru, Sarpatta Parambarai, and Maharaja.
Supergranulation
Supergranulation is a cellular pattern of mostly horizontal flows on the Sun's surface, with cells about 30,000 km across that last one to two days.
Supergrass
Supergrass: English rock band formed 1993 in Oxford (Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn, Danny Goffey, later Rob Coombes). Not to be confused with the informal legal term "supergrass" (police informer). Britpop band whose 1995 debut I Should Coco topped the UK chart; split 2010, reunited 2019.
Supergravity
Supergravity (SUGRA) is a field theory that combines general relativity with supersymmetry made local, containing the graviton and its spin-3/2 partner, the gravitino, first constructed in 1976.
Supergrid
A supergrid is a long-distance electricity transmission network, mainly high-voltage direct current lines at 500 kV or more, connecting remote renewable generation to demand centers and interconnecting national grids.
Supergroup (music)
Supergroup: a band formed by already-famous musicians from other bands or solo careers. Term coined in the late 1960s after the 1968 album Super Session; Cream is the standard first example; usually short-lived and often critiqued as less than the sum of its parts.
SuperH
SuperH is a family of 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores introduced by Hitachi in 1993, ranging from the SH-1 to the 64-bit SH-5 and powering the Sega Dreamcast.
Superhard carbon nitride
Superhard carbon nitrides are crystalline carbon and nitrogen compounds with hardness rivaling diamond, first synthesized unambiguously in 2023; unlike most high-pressure materials, they remain stable at ambient conditions.
Superhard material
A superhard material is a material whose Vickers hardness exceeds 40 GPa, placing it in the same performance range as diamond; only about 0.2% of cataloged materials are candidates.
Superheated steam
Superheated steam is water vapor at a temperature above its saturation temperature for its pressure; it raises turbine efficiency in the Rankine cycle but performs poorly for industrial heating.
Superheater
A superheater, or steam superheater, is a device that reheats boiler steam above saturation temperature into dry superheated steam, improving efficiency in locomotives, turbines, and industrial plant.
Superheavy element
A superheavy element, also called a transactinide element, is a chemical element with atomic number greater than 103, spanning rutherfordium (104) through oganesson (118), none of which occur in nature.
Superheavy Element Factory
The Superheavy Element Factory (SHE Factory) is an accelerator complex at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, launched in 2019 to synthesize new superheavy elements.
Superheavy element synthesis
Superheavy element synthesis is the production of elements with atomic numbers beyond those occurring naturally, by fusing lighter nuclei in accelerators, currently reaching element 118, oganesson.
Superheavy elements
Superheavy elements, also called transactinide elements, are the chemical elements with atomic numbers 104 and above, made in laboratories by smashing ion beams into targets.
Superhero
A superhero is a fictional character with extraordinary abilities who pursues justice, often through vigilante action. The genre began with Superman in Action Comics #1 in 1938.
Superhero fiction
Superhero fiction is a speculative-fiction genre of extraordinary-ability heroes defined by mission, powers, and identity, crystallized in comics with Superman's 1938 Action Comics debut, later deconstructed by Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and now spanning film, TV, games, and prose.
Superhero film
Superhero film: comic-book-adapted movies centered on superhuman heroes, from Superman (1978) through the MCU's $31.9 billion run to the post-2020 box-office decline and 2020s fatigue debate.
Superhero Kindergarten
Superhero Kindergarten (Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten) is a 2021 American animated preschool series on Kartoon Channel!, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as retired superhero Arnold Armstrong teaching six super-powered kids; it was Stan Lee's last creation.
Superhero Movie
Superhero Movie (2008) is a spoof comedy by Craig Mazin and David Zucker parodying Spider-Man and other superhero films, starring Drake Bell as Dragonfly; it grossed $71.5 million worldwide despite poor reviews.
Superheterodyne receiver
The superheterodyne receiver (superhet) is a radio receiver architecture that converts signals to a fixed intermediate frequency by mixing with a local oscillator, invented during World War I.
Superhot
Superhot is a first-person shooter in which time moves only when the player moves, developed by the Polish studio SUPERHOT Team and released in 2016.
Superhot: Mind Control Delete
Superhot: Mind Control Delete is a 2020 standalone roguelike expansion to Superhot by SUPERHOT Team, third in the series, free to original owners, with time moving only when you move.
Superhuman
Superhuman: adjective meaning beyond normal human powers, from Medieval Latin superhumanus (1630s). Covers superhuman AI such as AlphaGo (2016), human enhancement ethics, and the Superhuman productivity company.
Superhuman strength
Superhuman strength, also called super strength or enhanced strength, is the fictional ability to exert force beyond human limits. Key facts: Marvel's 1-100 ton class scale, fixed vs scaling vs unbounded strength architectures, and required secondary powers like durability.
Superhydride
A superhydride is a hydrogen-rich metal compound, MHₓ with x of 6 or more, stable only under million-atmosphere pressures, several of which are high-temperature superconductors.
Superhydrophobic coating
A superhydrophobic coating, also called a superhydrophobic surface, is a surface treatment that makes water bead up and roll off, defined by water contact angles above 150°.
Superhydrophobicity
Superhydrophobicity is extreme water repellency where water forms a contact angle above 150° and rolls off easily, arising from low surface energy plus roughness and causing the lotus effect.